Taocheng District () is district of

Hengshui Hengshui () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shandong to the southeast. At the 2010 census its population was 4,340,373 inhabitants whom 522,147 lived in the built-up (''or metro'') are ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

province, China.

History

In the 1930s, Taocheng was home to a branch of the

Yellow Sand Society The Yellow Sand Society (), also known as Yellow Way Society (), and Yellow Gate Society (), was a rural secret society and folk religious sect in northern China during the 19th and 20th century. Inspired by millenarian ideas, the movement la ...

which reorganised itself as "People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Self-Defence Corps", fighting against the expansion of the

Empire of Japan The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent fo ...

in the area.

Administrative divisions

衡水市-行政区划网
/ref> Subdistricts: * Hexi Subdistrict (), Hedong Subdistrict (), Lubei Subdistrict (), Zhonghua Subdistrict () Towns: * Zhengjiaheyan (), Zhaoquan () Townships: * Hejiazhuang Township (), Damasen Township (), Dengzhuang Township (), Pengducun Township ()

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External links

County-level divisions of Hebei {{Hengshui-geo-stub